Poetry & Prose
A Poem for One of THOSE Days
Bang Bang, Drip Drip,
Through it all an endless whine.
To the Doctor, to Walgreens,
I just might lose my mind.
He opens the drawers, and bangs on the pots,
My once clean shirt is littered with spots,
He wants to be held, I need my arms free,
Oh won’t someone come and trade with me?
Dinner’s made and cooking slow,
but the tantrums do not cease,
nap-time’s here to calm the day’s flow -
Who knows? I just might make it in one piece.
RING RING!
Oh no, the doorbell. SCREAM!
Pest control? Like I care,
The time of your visit just isn’t FAIR!
Do you know what you’ve done?
Don’t you see what I’ve lost?
I don’t want your service,
No matter the cost!
I close the door,
Step back inside.
Today seems a perfect day,
to run and hide.
The Nap Time Dilemma
To clean or to cook?
That is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the clutter and mess of an adorable toddler or to take spatchula against a sea of healthy muffin ingredients, and by stirring combine them?
Ah, to cook, to cook perchance to eat.
Haiku For You Friday!
Love’s true wings, like so
many things, spread, fly, soar, through
acts of selflessness.
Dear Jay,
Thank you so much for cleaning the kitchen last night while I was feeling sick and grumpy. The house looked beautiful this morning and it put a big smile on my face. You love me; you show me; you’re the very best.
Love,
Kim
Haiku for You Friday
The boys around me
hack, snort, snot, Kleenexes pile.
One week till we fly.
With only 8 days till our big college recruiting/family vacation, my boys have come down as snot noses. I’m fine so far, but I sure am worried for my snuffle heads on the flight.
Haiku for You Friday
Went to the doctor’s
Play time, check this, that, shots.
All well now, home safe.
I hate taking Cee to the doctor’s. People do strange and terrible things to him that he can’t understand and the whole time he sees me hovering over, not doing a thing to stop it. I worry about what that does for his trust, but luckily he gets over it quickly and is a happy boy on the car ride home – today he was particularly enthralled with a sticker that I gave him. He didn’t stick it or eat it, he just held it out and stared at it for a long time.
When we got home he bit me.
I guess that’s fair payback, but I put him in timeout anyway.
NO biting; not on my watch Mister.
Haiku for You Friday!
This week’s Haiku for You Friday goes out to Jay. He got up at 2 in the morning this week to work on a problem, and then worked straight through the whole day. Even with that, he’s still found time to help me with dishes, Cee, and some of the other things that I can’t quite do for myself yet. He’s a trooper.
A week of four days,
Tho made long with lack of rest,
ends now. Let’s PARTY!
